Top 100 Quotes About Kanye West
#1. Why everything that's supposed to be bad
Make me feel so good?
Kanye West
#2. I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
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#3. I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'
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#4. Have you ever had sex with a Pharaoh?
I put the pussy in a sarcophagus
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#5. [I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.
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#6. I want to dress like a child as much as possible.
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#7. I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka ... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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#8. Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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#9. I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.
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#10. Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.
Ian Astbury
#11. I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.
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#13. The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."
Akiva Goldsman
#14. I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.
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#15. If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I'm about to do
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#16. I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
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#17. I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that's how good I was. But I wasn't on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they're all the same as that coach.
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#18. If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.
Donald Glover
#19. So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.
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#20. "Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."
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#21. As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.
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#22. That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.
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#23. And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.
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#24. I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless
'Till I see a picture of a shorty armless
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#25. I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.
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#26. We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
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#27. I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
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#28. I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.
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#29. I understand culture. I am the nucleus.
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#30. There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture,
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#31. Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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#32. So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.
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#33. I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?
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#34. If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS
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#35. A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.
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#36. Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.
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#37. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.
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#38. I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.
L.A. Reid
#39. The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.
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#40. I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.
Rico Love
#41. Nothing is promised in life except death.
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#42. Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side
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#43. People don't stand up and protect their dreams because they get spoofed in a way.
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#44. But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
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#45. It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.
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#46. I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.
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#47. My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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#48. An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.
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#49. Where I'm from the dopeboys is the rockstars, but they can't cop cars without seeing cop cars. I guess they want us all behind bars. I know it.
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#50. I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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#51. The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?
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#52. Kanye West is my favorite artist.
Drake
#53. To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.
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#54. Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.
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#56. Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.
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#57. All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel
Simon De Pury
#59. Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.
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#60. We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate ... make the devil wait.
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#61. I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.
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#62. No one is looking at what President Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day ...
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#63. No flip flops for black dudes. I don't care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach.
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#64. Take your diamonds and throw em up like you're bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.
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#65. Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?
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#66. When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.
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#67. She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.
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#68. What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.
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#69. Man ... ninjas are kind of cool ... I just don't know any personally.
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#70. People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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#71. I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE ...
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#72. I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields.Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.
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#73. The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.
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#74. I love classical. I have a lot of, like, Bach and Mozart and stuff. Then you flip on over, and I've got, like, Kanye West and, you know, just a bunch of - I am very eclectic. I love every sort of music.
Kaley Cuoco
#75. The media crucify me like they did Christ.
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#76. I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped ... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.
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#77. This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.
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#78. I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.
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#79. You have to be able to swim in backlash.
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#80. My attitude is tattooed that means it's permanent
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#81. My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.
Josh Hartnett
#82. I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer."
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#83. If I don't win, the award show loses credibility.
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#84. I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.
Jhene Aiko
#85. I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.
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#86. The things that don't kill me makes me stronger
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#87. Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there's always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.
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#88. I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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#89. I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.
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#90. I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle
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#91. I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.
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#92. As a fan of Kanye West, working with him is insane.
Justin Vernon
#93. I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to.
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#94. I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war
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#95. You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.
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#96. I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!
Jamie Foxx
#97. It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say
Hey Mama
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#98. Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.
Joe Jonas
#99. As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast?
Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?
And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did it
And if you did, then that's family business.
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